Mac-style Menu Bar for GNOME/Xfce!

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If you have KDE apps, set mac-style menubar [control center -> desktop -> behavior] and you will see it appearing in gnome or xfce panel applet. (be careful - the menubars will die when panel/applet quits)

To move/remove the panel applets, move mouse to the rightmost place, where you'll see a flat button with no text inside, left-click on it to bring up the applet menu (right-click in xfce's panel plugin). If you have turned on the title label, you can also get the menu by right-click on it.

For other themes, you can make the menubar thin (more accessible) by edit the /usr/share/themes/THEME_NAME/gtk-2.0/gtkrc, find the line style "menubar" {, and change the ythickness = XXX below it (inside the { and }) to ythickness = 0

Re: Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK and Java/Swing applications!

Don't hold your breath just yet. The mere fact of having gotten as far as actually getting a functional mac menubar in gnome is too much asking knowing how much resistance the gtk/gnome devs opposed against this. Asking to get this into gnome directly is just wasting time. They DON'T want this done, period.

P.D: if this could be done so that it floats over the gnome-panel and can be made to start just next to the "Applications" icon in the gnome menubar applet (but covering the "Applications" label so that only the icon is visible) it would trully be Mac-like (the mac have the main menu placed at the left of the menubar thingie).

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Re: Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK and Java/Swing applications!

Originally Posted by Ptero-4

Don't hold your breath just yet. The mere fact of having gotten as far as actually getting a functional mac menubar in gnome is too much asking knowing how much resistance the gtk/gnome devs opposed against this. Asking to get this into gnome directly is just wasting time. They DON'T want this done, period.

P.D: if this could be done so that it floats over the gnome-panel and can be made to start just next to the "Applications" icon in the gnome menubar applet (but covering the "Applications" label so that only the icon is visible) it would trully be Mac-like (the mac have the main menu placed at the left of the menubar thingie).

Well I know from my own experience how... resistant the gnome devs can be, but wouldn't this have a chance if it was disabled untill an enviromental variable or gtkrc line was set? Also, I think the problem with you Applications menu suggestion is that many users don't have it in the default location.

Would it be possible to have this hack pass information to a panel-applet that can be put in the top panel, to act like the Apple menu in a less 'hackish' way?